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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 163, 15 June 1901, Page 3

[advebtisement.] Jemperance Items. (Published by arraugement.) Extracts from the Report of the Committee of Enquiry on Temperance Reform. Set up on November 16th, 1897, at the First Session Of the Fourteenth Synod of the Diocese'of Waiapu (Napier), New Zealand. Presented in October, Chairman; Trk Ritv. Canon Webb ; The Rev. T. J. Wills, Hon See.; Colonel W. Wood ; John Thorn - ton, Esq.; C. H. EowaßDs Esq. Nor could we ignore the relation of intoxicating drinks to pauperism, nor the wider question—The Economics of Drink- its relations to revenue, to commerce, to labour and poverty as set forth in the literature of the subject. Intbmpbrencb and pauperism. To us it Seems that the relations of intemperance and pauperism are ’almost identical with the relations of intemperance and,crime. A poorhouao Guardian writes from Kingawood, near Bristol-, that he,had never known an inmate in the Workhouse- there woo bad been a total abstainer, and he expresses bis belief that, ninety-nine, per cent, of the male inmates of the Workhouse, and ninety per cent of the female inmates have becoihe such AirActlv dr indirectly through .drink. ■IB9B. MEMBERS I The Very Rev. the Dean of Waiapu,